Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:57:26 -0500 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.30.0.110427 Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:57:25 -0500 Subject: Re: Bet You're Getting Paid Less Than Tim Cook! From: George Kerby Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Message-ID: Thread-Topic: Bet You're Getting Paid Less Than Tim Cook! Thread-Index: Ac0XMp8tcVjYiQhXakmz2pPHNQ0Bgw== References: <-7mdnYRDH8HKUhzSnZ2dnUVZ_qqdnZ2d@giganews.com> <4f82109e$0$2071$c3e8da3$a9097924@news.astraweb.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Lines: 34 X-Trace: sv3-vgFXLruPsh7kJmnEnrT9DZ6m8vn3rAiDZHJMKe7DyIdSxkBDk+/ej52OLZbOBdfZ1vqq3aw0+Y2/uh7!B8n/ueFRJQUjX45swn1BGtIbG8hh+xh6sTmfGERzANp+w1E8U4h2zCAqodwNta8/tSEL3Nfw1IfH!Bw== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2775 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:23588 On 4/9/12 9:39 PM, in article michelle-95A5F8.19392609042012@news.eternal-september.org, "Michelle Steiner" wrote: > In article , > George Kerby wrote: > >>> I have to wonder however whether one's lifestyle changes once you get >>> above 10 million per years. There is only so much money someone can >>> spend during your free time. >> >> Oh, but you are so naïve. Here are ten stories that prove that statement >> wrong... >> >> > > Well, only nine stories; can't count the one about the lottery winner who > was murdered. Besides, those stories are about people who won mere > millions in the lottery (and it was left unsaid that those who opted for a > lump sum payment actually got less than the value of the lottery, because > that value included future value); there is only so much one can spend, but > that is more than a paltry few million. > >> Plus, the 536 goofballs in Washington who think that our pockets are >> hind teats that will never run dry. > > Have you noticed that the majority of them are Republicans? No. Not until 2010 election, and that was just one House. Dirty Harry still runs the Upper House. But we'll see this Fall, will we not?